“Men do everything they do in order to get…” (Or, they did it for the nookie)
The claim by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa is that “men do everything they do in order to get laid”. Although Kanazawa is clearly going for some shock value with his claim, I must admit...
View ArticlePlease Keep Telling the YW to Be Modest for the YM
The title of this post is a play on Julie’s recent post over at T&S. I have been stirring up trouble over there so I figured I’d use this unusual lapse in my blogging apathy to continue over here....
View ArticleThe Problem of Evil and Evolutionary Biology
I have discussed the problem of evil in the past[1], and what I feel is the Church’s unique position on how the atonement itself acts as a theodicy, God responding with everything he can to our...
View ArticleGodel, Universality and Darwin
If I were to be stranded on an island with nothing but three books to keep me company there is no doubt that two of them would be Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and Godel, Escher, Bach. When taken together,...
View ArticlePitching Modesty
Has anyone seen this video before? It is a young entrepreneur pitching her line of modest women’s swimwear. She obviously has a financial incentive here but her arguments are provocative and sound...
View ArticlePunishing Those without Choice
Posts at both BBC and W&T, have recently claimed that God would never – or perhaps ought not – punish somebody for something they did not choose to do. While this claim does make perfect sense to...
View ArticleHonor, Dignity and Victimhood
This post that consists of three parts: First, I will give a brief review of Jonathan Haidt and his publications – this section is optional and can be skipped if you like. Second, I will summarize...
View ArticleThe Meaning and Morals of Marriage
Terrence Deacon’s classic work, The Symbolic Species, is a very interesting synthesis of 1) Peircean semiotics, 2) a socio-anthropological account of morals and 3) a very traditional understanding of...
View ArticleA Genealogy of Self-Interest: Machiavelli and Hobbes
This is the third post in my series where I appropriate Jerry Muller’s lecture series “Thinking About Capitalism” to bring socioeconomics and intellectual history to Jonathan Haidt’s...
View ArticleInsulting Utes on Twitter
Hey look! I just noticed I still own this blog… nice. Ok, I knew I still owned NCT. I just haven’t posted here in more than three years. These days I mostly get my online fix by talking BYU sports on...
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